Thomas Piketty: Capital in the Twenty-First Century: Evidence That the English-Language Physical Book Is Almost Here

• Thomas Piketty (2013), Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press).

Simply carrying it through the Berkeley Economics Department in the afternoon of the Friday before Christmas–a time when the building is close to dead because they are about to turn off what heat there is–gets me stopped for four conversations: “It’s the anti-Kuznets!” “It’s the updated Marx!” “It’s the anti-Summers!” “It’s the anti-Marx!”…

Really, I gotta either finish my painfully-slow reading of the French edition and write a review of that, or figure out how long this thing is under embargo…